Learn TypeScript Basics in this Beginner's Guide
TypeScript has taken the development world by storm. No wonder it has over 15 million weekly downloads on npm. But what is TypeScript, and what do you need to know about it?
TypeScript is a programming language built and maintained by Microsoft. It is a superset of JavaScript that adds strong type checking and is compiled into plain JavaScript code.
TypeScript comes with features such as better development-time tooling, static code analysis, compile-time type checking, and code-level documentation.
All these features that come with TypeScript make it the perfect programming language for building large-scale JavaScript applications.
This consists of the syntax, keywords, and type annotations of TypeScript. TypeScript syntax is similar to but not the same as JavaScript syntax.
The compiler is responsible for compiling TypeScript code into JavaScript. In reality, what happens is not actually compiling but transpiling.
